Chapter 69 – Don’t take my spot

Chapter 69 - Don't take my spot

I flipped through the contact list in my phone as I walked, found Jiang Yongfu’s number and called. Ugh, it’s actually out of service! When I saw Chen Weier, I asked about it a lot, but she couldn’t…



I flipped through the contact list in my phone as I walked, found Jiang Yongfu’s number and called. Ugh, it’s actually out of service!

When I saw Chen Weier, I asked about it a lot, but she couldn’t tell me exactly what happened. Zhao Junsheng was in Yangjing, so he wasn’t of any help either, there was no helping it, in order to deal with the issue as quick as possible, I got two of the quickest plane tickets and flew over to Songjiang city that night.

Just before getting on the plane, Chen Weier called her home again, telling them that I would be returning with her, so there was no need of Mother Chen to get worked up.

After getting off, I called a cab with Chen Weier, and sped straight to the direction of her home.

Although Chen Weier’s family got rich, they didn’t move houses, and still lived where they originally did. Right after entering, we saw Mother Chen pacing around the house anxiously.

What surprised me was that Chen Tianlei was actually there as well. He was smoking with a frown on the sofa. Seeing that I arrived, he said anxiously, “Liu Lei, help me think of a way, I don’t have much contacts in the mainland. Ai, this child, A Long, he has a bad temper, and got beaten up at the police station!”
“Chen Zelong’s also at the police station?” I asked in confusion.

Thus, Mother Chen told me what happened. Originally, after Chen Tianlei handed me Chen’s Corporation, he lied to Chen Zelong, telling him that they were bankrupted. Then he brought him to Songjiang to find Chen Weier’s father, which is also his younger brother Chen Tianyu. From Chen Tianyu, he was able to borrow three thousand kuai, letting the father and son to rent an apartment nearby. Since Chen Zelong also became a lot more sensible, and started working to support them. Yet, finding a job in the mainland was really difficult even more university graduates. What’s more, Chen Zrlong was also a young master that didn’t know anything. It was fortunate that Chen Zelong’s body was rather fit, so he found a construction company and started doing manual labor.

However, after the project was over, that owner actually refused to pay, and even got some mob-like delinquents to beat all of the workers, including Chen Zelong, with stick. Furthermore, they also threatened the workers and said that if they dare to ask for their pay again, they’ll make them disappear off the face of the earth.

Chen Zelong obviously could not take it, his young master temper immediately surfaced. That night, he went to wait for that owner at his company, and smashed his head with a brick. In the end, Chen Zelong got taken away by the police. Chen Tianlei wasn’t familiar here, and didn’t know the mainland law, so he hurried to Chen Tianyu’s family so that Chen Tianyu could help him think of a plan. Hearing that Chen Zelong hit someone, Chen Tianyu immediately went to the ATM to withdraw some money and hurried to the police station. Yet, the people at the police station didn’t let them pay bail, or even see them. In the end, Chen Tianyu got pissed and fought with the police and so was caught as well.

I was rather confused, normally, these cases should allow bail. No one died, it’ll just end up with compensating more money, why couldn’t they even see him?

“Which police station?” I asked.

“The market place police station near our home,” said Mother Chen. “Xiao Liu, you have to think of some way, you have a lot of contacts, you managed to help Chen Yong last time!”

I nodded and said, “Did you get in contact with the victim?”

“Not yet, I went over to the police station with his big bro, but they refused to tell me the contact for that boss or his family!” Mother Chen shook her head.

“Alright, wait for me, I’ll go and see what’s the issue!” I said.

“Then be careful!” Chen Weier reminded me.

I answered, then got a taxi to go straight to my home. There was a phonebook in my drawer with Jiang Yongfu’s home’s number. Originally, I could find Grandpa Zhao as well, but I would feel awkward about troubling him, what’s more, it’s already midnight, disturbing a senior’s sleep isn’t good.

When I got back home, I explained it my parents imply. This caused my dad to immediately want to go with me, but I didn’t agree, and said to my dad, “Dad, don’t worry, don’t you know about what I’m capable of. There definitely isn’t going to be a problem! What’s more, Chen Zelong does have some wrongs here, but that boss deserves it. Don’t worry, I’ll deal with it properly!”

My dad nodded, he also knew that his son was much better than him at handling matters, and thus didn’t say anything.

I found Jiang Yongfu’s number, and immediately dialed over. It was fortunate that this number wasn’t out of service.

“Hey, hello, I’m looking for Minister Jiang,” I remember Jiang Yongfu had already been promoted to the Minister of the Publicity Department of the City’s Municipal Committee.

“Oh? Who are you?” A woman’s voice rang out from the other side. “Our family’s Old Jiang has rested already, call tomorrow if you have any business!”

“I’m Liu Lei, please help me call him. It’s urgent matter!” I said.

At the same time, I heard Jiang Yongfu’s voice from the other side of the phone, “Who’s calling?”

That woman said, “I don’t know, he seems to be called Liu Lei something, and was even calling you minister. He definitely isn’t your superior or someone familiar, or else, how would he not know that you’re promoted! I think that he’s most likely asking you to do something…”

Before that woman finished, Jiang Yongfu interrupted her, “What do you know, I noticed that I’m putting on less and less air when my job gets more important, yet you are putting on more. Hurry and give me the phone, don’t cause any delay in proper business!”

That woman murmured something to herself, then right afterwards, I heard Jiang Yongfu’s voice, “Little bro Liu, why did you think of calling old bro so late?”

“What, you got promoted again?” I asked strangely.

“Hehe, it’s like this. The higher ranking I am as an official, the more stuff there is to do. I’m not as free as I was when I was just a police chief. Now, I don’t even have time to play a bit of Mahjong,” Jiang Yongfu complained. “I just got transferred a few days ago, the old director just retired, so I’m going to the provincial police department to be a deputy director to take charge for now.”

“Hehe, congratulations, Director Jiang!” I said.

“What congratulations, what did you find me for?” said Jiang Yongfu.

“It’s like this…” Thus, I told him about Chen Zelong’s situation.

“Oh? Wait for me at the market place police station, I’ll go over and see what’s going on for you!” said Jiang Yongfu.

“You’re such an important official now, it’s not that good for you to deal with this, right?” I asked.

“What’s wrong with this. What’s more, inspecting them handling cases is my responsibility,” said Jiang Yongfu.

I took out my Mercedes s600 from my garage, then drove directly to the market place police station. Just after arriving at the entrance, and parking my car, a car horn rang out behind me. I looked back and saw a white Ferrari. There was person with a bandaged head that stuck his head out to roar at me, “F̲u̲c̲k̲, move your car, don’t take my spot!”

Hearing that, I chuckled. This person’s so funny, he couldn’t find a place to park, so he’s telling me to move.

“There isn’t anything wrong with you, right?” I asked. “Does your family own this place or what? Do you have the deed?”



 

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Chapter 69 – Don't take my spot

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[Arc 3] Chapter 94

[Arc 3] Chapter 94

Chapter 94 Lucas Revives Chu Shen was quite busy forging for a month. Originally Chu Shen thought that having ten gold was a lot but apparently not. For someone who could forge a Grade 5 weapon in a…



Chapter 94
Lucas Revives

Chu Shen was quite busy forging for a month. Originally Chu Shen thought that having ten gold was a lot but apparently not. For someone who could forge a Grade 5 weapon in a half hour, it was child’s play to earn such money.

The master smith had been shocked at having a hundred gold and commented how it took half a year to make that amount. The gold Chu Shen earned in this month was over two hundred gold alone. As for the reason, it was simple. Chu Shen was an artificer.

A smith has to buy the materials and then forge the weapon. Afterwards it needs to be inscribed otherwise it can only be considered a trashy weapon and not a true weapon. Because of this a smith has to split the profit 50-50 with the inscriptionist, not to mention the cost for it.

Considering all this, if a weapon sells for 80 silver, which is how much a Low-Tier Grade 5 weapon costs, the smith would be lucky to have made a profit of 30 or even 20 silver. Truly artificing is a noble profession.

Chu Shen forged for five hours everyday. Using these five hours he would sell ten weapons making 800 silver or 8 gold everyday. Using 1 gold to replenish his materials, Chu Shen would be able to forge for the next day.

Chu Shen also spent another two hours using the library that the Four Treasures Shop allowed him authority. Since his tablets authority outweighed his true ability, some of the books were far out of his understanding. His abilities soared as he learned.

But as the saying goes, you learn more walking a thousand miles than reading a thousand books. Chu Shen spent another two hours experimenting and applying the theories that he learned from the library, using another gold to buy materials. But he was able to earn it back from the products he made.

Next he talked with Lucas for an hour, since he said he was bored. Finally Chu Shen used another hour to cultivate. With this, Chu Shen was busy for eleven hours straight. Truly working from tirelessly. With this, Chu Shen earned over 210 gold.

While Chu Shen enjoyed this leisurely lifestyle, others cursed at him for doing so.

The Black Rose Guild had successfully sent a group of four to track down and capture Chu Shen. All of them were peak Martial Practitioners being at level 10. They were one of the elite squads and were considered quite good at such a low level branch of the Black Rose Guild.

Once they arrived, they bought some room at an inn. “Come one, we need to capture that boy right away.” One of the men stood up like he was going to go looking for him right now.

“Sit down you!” One of the other men grabbed him and hauled him back into his chair. “We have eyes on him in the city. Until he leaves we cannot attack him inside the city, otherwise we will be smacking the city lord’s face and our Black Rose Guild would not be able to protect us. Wait until he is outside the city, then we strike.”

The man who was pulled back into his chair huffed. “Fine. It is an accurate assessment but if this takes longer than half a month I am leaving.”

One of the other men who had not spoken yet rolled his eyes. “You always were impatient. How about you use this time to cultivate?”

“Nah, I would rather kill something. I need action.” The impulsive man sighed. “Unfortunately there really is nothing here. I hope that Chu Shen leaves the city soon.”

Meanwhile, Chu Shen exited the Four Treasure Shop’s main business center. He walked out rubbing his spatial ring. “I got all the materials Lucas told me he needed. I can’t wait to find out what he made his body like this time.”

Chu Shen walked into his house at the Black Night Sect. Taking out Lucas from the spatial ring, he placed his braincase on the bed. “So Chu Shen, you came home early. Why?”

He shrugged. “Well I finally gathered all those materials you needed. I think it’s time to make that body you were talking about.”

“Yeah. That will be great. Now bring out the fabber and start loading up the materials according to the schematics.”

Chu Shen did as Lucas said. The materials were only a very small portion of the overall materials that he had bought. Looking curiously, Chu Shen waited for the fabber to finish.

Upon looking at the finished product, he immediately became confused. It was a fairly large box with a circular dent in the top. Looking around for a bit, Chu Shen found that was all that was truly there.

“What is this thing Lucas? I thought you wanted a body?”

Lucas sighed. “Well, in order to make synthetic skin, I need some very specific materials. Unfortunately, you don’t have them since you guys don’t need polyvinyl, polyethylene, and other plastic products.”
“So I made this, a mineral scanner. You should be able to find the unrefined products in the wild and transport them here. With that I will be able to walk around like a person and not some metallic monster.”

Chu Shen nodded. Of course this made sense. In order to make synthetic skin, such plastic materials were needed but plastic was not used by martial artists since only modern factories actually used them

“So what do I need to do?”

“All you need to do is activate this thing and carry it with you when you fly. I will come with you to manage the software and also to activate the jetpack. So don’t fret, it won’t take that long.”

“Besides that, I have a couple other things I need you to make for me. You did agree to it. So go ahead and load it inside the fabber.”

Chu Shen sighed and started working. Grumbling, he muttered under his breath. “I’m not a slave. When you get out, i’m going to repay you back so much for this.”

The next day, Chu Shen departed from the city. Inside the inn, the brash man from the Black Rose Guild was sleeping soundly. All of a sudden, he was rudely shoved out of bed.

Jumping up, the man grabbed his sword from the stand. “Who dares to treat me lik-”

“Give it a rest. Come on we need to move out.” One of the other men stood in front of him, glaring at the man harshly.

“The prey is leaving the city.”



 

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VPnA – The Prequel Volume 2 Chapter 67

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VPnA – The Prequel Volume 2 Chapter 66

Here’s the first chapter of the day.

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Chapter 68 – Such as giving me flowers

Chapter 68 - Such as giving me flowers

“Okay!’ I left my phone number to Professor Dong and walked out of his office. This is amazing, I got a powerful support, it’s no problem even if I don’t go to class anymore. It seems to be…



“Okay!’ I left my phone number to Professor Dong and walked out of his office. This is amazing, I got a powerful support, it’s no problem even if I don’t go to class anymore. It seems to be fine even if I don’t take exams, right? Gaga!

When I got back to the classroom, I saw Zhang Jiaming there again, and was chatting with Zhao Yanyan on my seat. Zhao Yanyan showed a look of contempt, and cried out towards me as if she was looking for help after she saw me come in, “Liu Lei, what did Professor Dong find you for?”

I quickly ran back to my seat and said to Zhang Jiaming, “Sorry, my girlfriend’s looking for me, please excuse me!”

Zhang Jiaming stood up with an expression of dissatisfaction. Right before leaving, he turned to Zhao Yanyan and said, “Zhao Yanyan, consider it!”

Zhao Yanyan didn’t even look at him, so Zhang Jiaming could only glare and leave in annoyance.

“Why did you think of asking me for help, don’t you dislike me as well!” I said with a smile.

“Yeah, but you’re not as despicable as them, so might as well use you as a shield!” Zhao Yanyan said craftily.

I knew that her impression of me in her heart has already changed, I didn’t point it out though, I merely said, “Professor Dong wants to establish a software company and wants me to help!”

“You? Oh yeah, you didn’t say it yet, have you learnt computing before?” Zhao Yanyan was very confused about my shocking performance during the class in the morning.

“Of course, don’t you remember? We took lessons together at the Shaoniangong in Songjiang city, and even entered a national computing competition together!” I said.

“Che, here you go again! Can’t you be more creative, this lady is no fool, can’t you use a more interesting method?” Zhao Yanyan twitched her mouth and said.

“What do you mean by interesting?” I faint, Zhao Yanyan actually still thinks that I’m making up a story to trick her just to pursue her.

“Such as asking me out to play, or giving me some flowers…” Zhao Yanyan said casually.

“Do you mean that you agree to go on a date with me?” Hearing Zhao Yanyan say that, I knew that our relationship seemed to improve once again.

However, Zhao Yanyan instantly realized that there was something wrong with what she said. She explained with an embarrassed blush, “It’s just that Zhang Jiaming wanted to ask me out, so I said it casually, don’t misunderstand!”

“I didn’t misunderstand, didn’t misunderstand, hehe!” I really wanted to laugh loudly! I disregard that lesson was about to start, and swiftly jumped out of the classroom window.

Zhao Yanyan freaked, the building we were studying in was one with staircases, the window was one and a half floors above the ground. Zhao Yanyan thought to herself, this fellow can’t have fallen to his death, right. So, she quickly ran over to the window to see, when she saw my fleeting back, she felt a sudden sweetness in her heart. She smiled meaningfully and muttered to herself, is there a need to be so happy?

I ran all the way to the school gate, then rushed in after seeing a flower shop.

“This student, do you want to buy flowers?” said a chubby old man towards me.

“Yes, shop owner!” I said with a pant. With my current body condition, I didn’t use up any stamina to ran, the reason I was panting was because I was too worked up!

“Hehe, for your girlfriend?” The chubby old man asked with a chuckle.

“Yeah… Kind of,” I wasn’t sure what sort of relationship I currently had with Zhao Yanyan.

“Oh, then that means you didn’t get her yet?” The chubby old man smiled. “Then buy roses, you can buy 1, 11 or 99. Of course, that would depend on your economic ability, the effects are pretty much the same.”

Hehe, this old man is really interesting, there’s actually someone that runs a business like him, he actually told me the effects were pretty much the same! Just what other shop owners wouldn’t want to sell more!

Thus, I smiled, “Then I’ll have 99, help me package it please!”

“No problem,” The chubby old man swiftly took out 99 roses from the bucket, placed it on the wrapping paper, and then poured a bit of glitter-like decoration on it and bundled it all together. Then he asked, “Do you want to leave a message?”

“No need, thank you Chubby Uncle, how much is it?” I received the flowers and asked in satisfaction.

“99 kuai,” replied the chubby owner.

I handed him a hundred kuai note, and wanted to say that there’s no need for the change. However, I felt like it would make it seem like it was out of pity, so I didn’t. That’s because this Chubby Uncle was rather nice, and the flower wasn’t expensive.

The chubby owner handed me a one yuan coin, which I casually tossed into the donation box at the school gate for the students in poverty.

I didn’t care that it was lesson time, and directly rushed into the classroom with flowers. When I saw that it was still Professor Dong’s lesson, I instantly let out a sigh of relief, greeted him, then returned to my seat.

Seeing that I brought a bouquet of flowers in, the entire class couldn’t help but sigh. However, since I acted rather amazingly normally, and they saw that the professor didn’t have any issues with it, they didn’t say anything.

Yet, Zhao Yanyan seemed like she was burning up, her face was bright red, even redder than a tomato.

“For you!” I handed the flowers to Zhao Yanyan.

This is way too awkward, Zhao Yanyan thought to herself. Originally, she didn’t plan on receiving it, but then she thought of how Liu Lei’s action would be even more awkward if she didn’t take it! Thus, she quickly grabbed the flowers and put it underneath the table, then said angrily, “Who told you to buy flowers!”

“You!” I smiled.

“… But I didn’t tell you to go right now! I really got screwed by you!” Zhao Yanyan dipped her head in embarrassment and said.

“It’s alright, since everyone knows about our relationship…” I chuckled.

“Who has any relationship with you!” Zhao Yanyan turned around, ignored me and started to read her textbook.

Seeing Zhao Yanyan’s appearance, I couldn’t be happier. Hehe, don’t think that I don’t know, you are pretending to read the book full heartedly, but you haven’t flipped a page in so long.

As my happy life started, trouble came again, causing me to couldn’t help but leave my darling Yanyan for a while.

The situation was like this, after class that day, just as I escorted Zhao Yanyan back to her dorm, my phone rang. I took it out and saw that it was Chen Weier.

“Weier, what happened?” I asked.

“Hubby, something happened at home. My mom just called me and told me that dad got taken away!” Chen Weier said anxiously.

“Taken away? Who took him away?” My first reaction was – could it be a kidnapping for ransom? That was because Chen Weier’s family had already gotten richer with Mother Chen’s restaurant, they probably managed to save up a million or so.

“It’s the police.”

Hearing that, I let out a sigh of relief, it’s easy to deal with as long as it’s not a kidnapping. Thus, I asked, “Why di the police arrest your dad?”

“My mom didn’t say it clearly, but the basic premise if that my dad hit someone… What should we do!” Chen Weier said anxiously.

“Don’t get worked up, where are you, I’ll go over to find you immediately. If it can’t be helped, then I’ll go back with you!’ I said.

“I’m at the school gate!” said Chen Weier.

“Okay, wait for me, I’ll be there immediately, “I said. Then I explained to Zhao Yanyan rashly, telling her that I had something urgent to take care of, so I have to leave now.



 

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Chapter 68 – Such as giving me flowers

“Okay!’ I left my phone number to Professor Dong and walked out of his office. This is amazing, I got a powerful support, it’s no problem even if I don’t go to class anymore. It seems to be…

Chapter 67 – A plan arises

Chapter 67 - A plan arises

The class was instantly filled with a round of laughter, causing Zhao Yanyan to stomp her feet in anger. She was truly annoyed with my lack of motivation! “Hai hai! Liu Lei, according to what I know, you…



The class was instantly filled with a round of laughter, causing Zhao Yanyan to stomp her feet in anger. She was truly annoyed with my lack of motivation!

“Hai hai! Liu Lei, according to what I know, you sleep in my lesson every time, you finally aren’t sleeping, yet you aren’t paying attention in class, this studying attitude isn’t right…” The professor started scolding me continuously.

After that, he immediately changed his tone and said, “Okay, let’s continue to look at this program, the program should be written like this…” With that, he started writing on the blackboard, as if he forgot about me. However, he didn’t tell me to sit down.

Isn’t this deliberately messing with me! Yet, since the professor didn’t speak, I should sit down, since I should respect my teachers at school a bit more.

However… Hehe, since you messed with me like that, shouldn’t I repay you in full as well? AS I looked at the program he wrote on the blackboard, a plan arose.

“This program can be written like this…” The professor explained as he wrote. “Alright, does anyone have any questions?”

“Professor, the way you wrote the program is too tedious, although the execution result is the same, why not make it more simplified?” I immediately said.

Everyone in the class, including Zhao Yanyan, looked at me with a weird expression. They didn’t understand why I, a student that never listened in class, would suddenly say that, could it be that I was deliberately causing trouble?

The professor pushed his glasses up and said to me, “Oh? Then how does Liu Lei think it should be simplified?”

I walked towards the stage, took a piece of chalk, and started writing on another blank space on the blackboard. The hundred plus lines of code was simplified to fifty something lines.

When I put down the chalk and walked back to my seat, the professor looked at me with a shocked expression. Then, he nodded understandingly, which actually caused me to become a bit confused.

I took the chance to sit down. Hehe, the feeling of standing like an idiot really isn’t good!

“The program after Liu Lei’s simplification is very good, not only did it improve the code, it also improved the efficiency of execution, this will use less RAM…” The professor started to tlak about the program I wrote.

Zhao Yanyan looked at me with an admiring expression, but said, “You guessed it, right!”

“…” This made me recall what Zhao Yanyan had said to me during high school as well.

“Don’t you never study?” Zhao Yanyan asked me in confusion.

“Ugh… Who said I don’t study, it’s just that I spend all the time during the day to chat you up, and have no time to study, I have to fight through the night under the lights every day….” Gaga, I did fight through the night every day, but I fought Chen Weier during the night.

“Che… I’m going to ignore you now!” Zhao Yanyan turned around with a blush.

Hehe, I don’t believe that you can escape my grasp!

“Liu Lei, come to my office for a moment!” said the professor after class.

Going to the office? It can’t be, he can’t be scolding me due to me taking his spotlight, right?

I followed the professor to his office… Huh? Faculty head’s office? This geezer is the faculty head? F̲u̲c̲k̲i̲n̲g hell, now I’m screwed! I thought he was just a normal professor.

“Liu Lei, you don’t remember me?” The professor closed the door, poured a cup of water for me, then sat back onto the sofa.

“You…” I swept over the name plate on the office table. Dong Yuchen. I don’t have any memories of that, why did he ask me this? Could this guy be reborn as well”

“Professor Dong, have we met before?” I asked in a testing manner.

“Yeah, not only have we met before, I even gave you a prize!” With that, Professor Dong turned on the computer on his desk.

A prize? I was more and more confused, when have I gotten a prize before? Could it be the National Teenage Computing Competition I entered with Zhao Yanyan? I thought back to it. The person that presented me with the prize did seem to be him, the only thing that changed was his hairstyle. Thus, I said, “Professor Dong, are you talking about that National Teenage Computing Competition?”

“Yeah! You remember!” Professor Dong nodded, “That was the first national computing competition, and I was the main judge, so I had a really deep impression of you! I still have your piece from back then!’ With that, he opened a file, and executed an application, causing the computing screen to instantly show my the piece I wrote back then, Zhao Yanyan in a white jacket standing at the entrance of Huaxia University.

Suddenly, Professor Dong pointed at the computer screen and said to me after thinking about it a little, “This girl is the girl sitting beside you in class?”

I nodded.

“No wonder, I felt that this girl looked really familiar the first day! Yet, why did you think about using Huaxia University as the background back then?” Professor Dong asked.

“Ugh… That’s because we set Huaxia University as our target in the future,” I said casually. Of course I couldn’t say that I was reborn!

“So it’s like that! It seems like you guys got what you wished for. However, Zhao Yanyan back then didn’t look the same as now, right? Your piece…” Professor Dong finally asked me the fatal question.

“Ah!” I momentarily blanked, f̲u̲c̲k̲, I can’t let him continue asking like this, otherwise, I’ll let it slip sooner or later, so I had to quickly change the topic. Thus, I said perfunctorily, “This is also my imagination of what she is like after she matures, I didn’t think that it really is similar, haha.”

Professor Dong nodded, but didn’t continue delving on it, he started to get to the main point, “Fortunately you didn’t sleep today, otherwise, I wouldn’t have known that someone so talented was among my students!”

“Hehe!” I chuckled dryly in embarrassment.

“Oh yeah, I’ve been getting troubled over talents recently. The situation is like this, our school’s computing faculty is preparing to start a software company, mainly for Hanzi character recognition! I’m going to be the leader for this project, come and help out, Liu Lei!” said Professor Dong.

“Okay,” I thought about it, then said. “however, this projects seems to need a lot of funding, do we have enough money? From what I know, not only does the software for OCR have to be good, it also needs to be supported by the scanning hardware!”

“Hehe, the chancellor already approved us for the funding, we can use the money from the school’s Huaxia Investment!” said Professor Dong. “Liu Lei, it seems like I didn’t find the wrong person, you even know OCR, so you did do quite a bit of research on recognition systems!”

Huaxia Investments? Isn’t that the company Zhang Jiaming is in charge of, it seems like Wang Peng was right, the money in Zhang Jiaming’s hands can’t be underestimated!

“I just read a bit of it on foreign websites!” I said humbly. Hehe, the amount of profit for OCR wasn’t a lot, so I didn’t get Uncle Zhao and then to research it, since I had a lot of incomplete projects on hand. However, this doesn’t mean that I don’t understand about it.

“Okay, that’s a promise. I’ll get a few more students to research with us, I’ll notify you by phone after it’s all set!” said Professor Dong.



 

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The class was instantly filled with a round of laughter, causing Zhao Yanyan to stomp her feet in anger. She was truly annoyed with my lack of motivation! “Hai hai! Liu Lei, according to what I know, you…

[Vol 4] Chapter 58: Enlightenment

[Vol 4] Chapter 58: Enlightenment

On the battleground where the two parties were currently facing each other, what seemed like a meteorite fell from the skies and caught everyone's attention. With a loud deafening sound, akin to an explosion, rang out as this…



On the battleground where the two parties were currently facing each other, what seemed like a meteorite fell from the skies and caught everyone’s attention. With a loud deafening sound, akin to an explosion, rang out as this seemingly strange activity occurred. From the huge dust storm that swirled around the area of impact, a man with ghostly looking eyes walked out. This was Svecko who had landed and disrupted the current squabbles.

 

“Sir Svecko!” the Minya warriors called out in joy.

 

Svecko ignored their calls and immediately dashed towards Ducarte and his daughter. Without saying a word, Svecko grabbed both Ducarte and his daughter and immediately flew towards the sky again. Everyone’s expression became confused as they had no idea what Svecko’s action meant. Both parties were equally nervous as Svecko’s actions were not entirely clear. On the one hand, the Minya warriors were nervous and secretly hoped Svecko was not abandoning them, and on the side of the warriors were hoping Svecko wasn’t going to interfere. No one knew what the conclusion of the battle between Svecko and Willard. Each side could only hope for the best.

 

After waiting a couple of minutes and realizing Svecko wasn’t coming back, the Gerret warriors found a new source of courage as they quickly mobilized to kill fight the Minya warriors. To add on to their delight, they saw reinforcements in the form of the Marquis city’s primero knight join the battle. Allan’s fame as a knight within Marquis city was second to none. And for him to join the fight meant one thing, he had killed Aswan. Without Ducarte and their military leader, the Minya warriors knew they had lost the battle. At this point, the Minya warriors had lost the will to battle, one by one they each dropped their weapons and proceeded to kneel in submission. In a matter of minutes, the surrendering Minya warriors were all rounded and escorted to a prison camp.

 

The battle that had seemed almost impossible to lose, had been lost. A wild sense of jubilation filled every surviving member of the Gerret household. Who would have thought their suicide battle would have been won today? And in their celebrations, one person’s name rang the loudest. The youth that had had personally intervened to save their lives against ranked spells and had thoroughly held his own even against a saint. From that moment on, a new legend had been born to the people of Marquis city. For generations, people would tell tales of a youth that had fought a saint at the elemental level of power.

 

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A couple of hours later, within the Gerret household, a banquet was currently being held. All the Gerret warriors were celebrating their victory with wine and food. Within a private study in the house, stood Jayesh, Sebastian, Allan, Bryant and a couple of higher ranking warriors. This list included both knights that had joined Allan to reinforce the Gerret household and Baya. At this moment, everyone’s gaze was Willard who was currently laying on a bed. “This child

Is currently in a grave situation,” Bryant said as he touched Willard’s forehead.

 

“Is there anything we could do to help him?” Baya asked with a distressed look on his face.

 

“He used up all of his elemental essence during his battle with the snow saint and ended up using his life essence. At this point, it would really be up to him to survive this,” Bryant said.

 

“It is thanks to this child my Gerret family was not completely killed out,” Jayesh sighed as he stared at the Willard. As someone who had almost reached the level of a saint, he knew what dangers Willard was in right now. It was taboo for any warrior to use their life essence to battle because that meant suicide.  

 

Everyone remained silent for a couple of seconds before the silence was broken by Allan. “Esteemed saint, lord Jayesh. We would be taking our leave right now. We have to wait and report the outcome to the lord of the Marquis household.” With that, Allan and the rest of the knights paid their respects and left.

 

Jayesh looked at his son Sebastian and gave a gentle smile. “You did well,” he said.  “You might not have the body of a warrior, but you more than makeup for it with your bravery.” Hearing those words from his father brought a smile to Sebastian’s face, which was immediately overridden by a sense of guilt Sebastian felt for the current situation Willard was in. Jayesh felt a great sense of pride looking at his son and seeing how he managed the situation. Not only did Sebastian not completely cowering in fear, he also chose to fight rather than submit.

 

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At the Marquis, a quiet maelstrom was slowly brewing. Rumors of the complete decimation of the Minya forces were flying around the mansion. Lyon was seated on a wooden bench behind his quarters and was in deep contemplation. “How is this possible? Even our spy network has confirmed every bit of this information.”  Lyon was currently frustrated at how things had turned out. He had previously refused to head over to the aid of the Gerret family and was heavily criticized by all the knights. Lyon had believed his actions were right, given the strength of the Minya resistance, there was no way the insignificant Gerret family would have survived this disaster. But somehow, the people he held in no regards had not only survived, they had won the battle without the official aid of the Marquis family. Lyon’s frustration mostly stemmed from the fact that Sebastian actually lead their family to victory.

 

“That damn Sebastian must be gloating now,” Lyon said with burning rage. “Those useless Minya dogs couldn’t even win against the Gerret. This was supposed to be my glory, those fools couldn’t even handle that much.”

 

Lyon got up from the bench and walked towards the main hall of the inner mansion. He frowned all through the way there. He sat at the head of the war chamber and patiently waited for the arrival of the knights.

 

It took about an hour for Allan and his company to arrive back at the Marquis household. On arriving the atmosphere was much different than when they had left. At their arrival, all of the knights that had assembled back for a meeting, all got up.

 

Lyon who sat at the head of the table, stood up to address the incoming knights. Before he could utter a single word, a big wave of praises came flooding the room. “Congratulations primero knight! Lord of the sword prevails again!”

 

More praises kept pouring as the other knights joined in congratulating. Within the congratulations, a sense of guilt could be felt from every single one of their praises. They were sworn-knights with the duty of protecting their city, but they had hesitated in doing their duty and instead chose to obey the word of the next city lord. Especially after the victory of the Gerret household, they all had faces covered in guilt and praises of the strong primero knight.

 

“Congratulations primero knight, your battle was successful. This entire city owes you a great deal of debt,” Lyon said with a smile on his face. Although he showed a glowing smile, he was inwardly causing at his terrible luck. Not only had the primero knight undermined his authority, he had also returned successfully. How could he not be angry? His entire actions were nothing short of cowardly.

 

“No need for all these praises. The battle would have been won by the Gerret household with or without our intervention,” Allan said in response to Lyon’s comments.

 

“What do you mean primero knight?” Lyon asked with a startled expression. Not just Lyon, all the other knights were equally as confused. What did the primero knight mean by his statement? Was he trying to say one household, had more power than the combined forces of several households? Everyone had thought it was the efforts of the primero knight that would have won them their victory.

 

“The next generation of the Gerret household is quite commendable,” Allen said taking a slight jab at Lyon. “Especially the youth called Willard,” he said before pausing with a slight look of adoration. With that, Allen kept quiet and silently sat on the table. Following his lead, was Agness and Tadea. The look of frustration on Lyon’s face grew more apparent, but he couldn’t say a word. Allan and the rest of the group spoke about some of the events that had happened but left out some of the important matter like the appearance of the metal saint.

 

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A week had passed since the advent of the Minya uprising. At the Gerret household, Willard was still in a coma. Nana stood by his bed tending to his body. Within a world shrouded in gray clouds, Willard was walking in a straight direction. “What the hell is this place? I’ve been walking for how long now and I still can’t find a trace of any life,” he said in a frustrated manner. “How the hell did I end up here? I can’t even remember anything.”

 

While Nana was tending to his body, tears slowly started falling from her eyes. She leaned on his lifeless body of Willard and started crying. She felt quite miserable seeing Willard in his current state. After the death of her parents, she had always been at the side of her teacher, and after the departure of her teacher, Willard had assumed the position of the most important person in her life. “Please come back. Don’t leave me. Don’t leave Nana” she said with all the grief she held in her heart.

 

Within the strange world, Willard stood in place as a strange sensation gripped his entire body. Slowly Willard heard the words “Please come back.”

 

“Who was that?”

“Why does that voice sound so familiar?” When suddenly something akin to sunlight pierced through that gray world of his, but this sunlight was red and ethereal in feeling.

 

“What is this? Why does it feel so familiar?” When he then heard the words, “Don’t leave Nana!”

 

“Nana!” Willard said with a strange look on his face. Memories of a smiling young girl came to his mind. Suddenly, like an egg cracking, the gray cloudy world broke apart leaving nothing but that red sun. At that moment, a flurry of memories flashed through Willard’s mind. In the real world where Willard’s body laid, his fingers moved. Nana was too engrossed in her sorrow and failed to notice the movement of Willard’s fingers.

 

Within the red world, Willard stared at the red sun with a look of astonishment. “What is this world? Is this due to the red substance I cultivated?” Although Willard had gained a complete understanding of what lead to his current situation, he still had no idea how to leave the red world.

 

Willard sat down and stared at the red sun, and while he stared at the red sun, he felt something familiar about this red energy, he couldn’t quite put his fingers on it, but he knew that there was something peculiar about that energy. For a brief moment, Willard started thinking about all of his experience, both as the god of destruction and the mortal Willard. Like a bolt of lightning, Willard gained a sudden insight. The insight wasn’t a new found knowledge, it was more like a reminder of something he already knew. “That’s right. This red energy has the same feeling as the substance in Gaya’s eternal fountain. But why do I feel like it is still different from Gaya’s eternal fountain?” Willard continued pondering on his current findings.


In a vast world of complete darkness, void of any life, a formless figure in the shape of a woman smiled.



 

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[Arc 3] Chapter 93

[Arc 3] Chapter 93

Chapter 93 Impressing Them The Four Treasure Shop. A prestigious shop made up of masters of various crafts that sells materials for inscriptions, alchemy, and forging. Then there is the section for Martial Artists where all of the…



Chapter 93
Impressing Them

The Four Treasure Shop. A prestigious shop made up of masters of various crafts that sells materials for inscriptions, alchemy, and forging. Then there is the section for Martial Artists where all of the finished products made by their craftsmen are sold.

Those who were geniuses in the paths that supported the martial way were highly valued by the shop. The reason for this was naturally profit. By finding and nurturing young geniuses, obviously they would have a loyal crafter later.

Chu Shen was not a stranger to the Four Treasures Shop. As a matter of fact, he bought materials from them when he lived back in the mercenary city. Of course, that was only a branch shop. By coincidence, the main branch was actually located here. It was of course because Wildent was the third largest city.

The master smith and Chu Shen walked into the store. Upon entering a beautiful female attendant immediately approached them, smiling. “Hello honored customer. What may I do for you?”

The master smith took out an iron tablet with writing inscribed on it. “I, Huaga Osna, request for this young man to be tested as an artificer using my authority as an iron level smith of the Four Treasure Shop.”

The attendant was stunned for a second before adopting a serious look on her face. Glancing at Chu Shen for a moment, she then turned to face the master smith Huaga Osna.

“As an iron level smith, being above a copper and bronze members, you may request this. I will take the boy to the artificer exam area. Meanwhile, please remain here until the exam is done.”

Osna bowed his head in acknowledgment. Turning to Chu Shen he patted him on the back. “Good luck boy. Try your best on the exam, hold nothing back. The better your weapon, the better your treatment.”

Chu Shen nodded and followed the attendant. She lead him to the back and knocked on a door. “Come in.” They walked into the room. Facing them was a wrinkly old man behind a desk.

The attendant bowed to the“Iron level smith Huaga Osna has request this boy be tested as an artificer. Please allow him to take the test.” The wrinkled old man looked at Chu Shen and nodded his head.

“For one so young requesting to be tested as an artificer, I wonder how far you will go. Come here young one.” Chu Shen approached the old man. When he did, the old man pulsed Qi through his body.

“Hmm. Your bone does not lie. You are thirteen, very young to be testing as an artificer. If you pass it will show your potential and even if you don’t, to be a Martial Practitioner at such a young age means you are a once in a century genius. Go, take him to the practice arena.”

Bowing, the attendant left and took Chu Shen to another area. Here another attendant took over while the first one left for the shop area. Chu Shen was lead to a forge.

“If you have any materials you need to forge, ask me now. You must pay for any materials after the trial but if you can forge a good sword the Four Treasure Shop will buy it, allowing you to pay us back this way.”

“Thank you. Can you get me the inscription ink for five tries of the [Channelling Inscription], [Hardening Inscription] and a [Burst Inscription] also get me a…..” Chu Shen started to immediately list different metals he need along with the amounts he needed. Finally Chu Shen needed some special wood for the fuel.

The attendant merely listened while Chu Shen listed these materials but inwardly he was shocked that such a young boy was so professional. Normally only experienced smiths could rattle materials off like that.

“Let me go get the materials for you.” The attendant left but within five minutes he was back. He had none of the materials in his hands. While Chu Shen was a bit confused as to where they were, the attendant took the materials out of a spatial ring he wore.

“I will stay here to assess your forging process and to assist you if need be. Please start forging.”

Chu Shen nodded and placed the wood under the forge. Lighting up the wood, he waited until it reached a good temperature. Placing the ores on it, Chu Shen started melting them down. As he waited, Chu Shen took out a crystal. It had a strangely cold aura to it.

The crystal was foggy and gave off a kind of mist around it. Using the hammer that came with the forge, Chu Shen smashed the crystal into dust. Ice formed on the edge of the hammer. Smashing the ice by pounding the hammer on the edge of the table, Chu Shen put the crystal dust into a jade box.

Continuing with the forging now that the materials were starting to soften, he pounded the metal, driving out the impurities. Chu Shen then brought out the crystal dust and poured it into the liquid metal. Mixing the materials together, Chu Shen ensured an even mixture. He had some problems since the materials started to cool from the dust but placing it back into the forge fixed that real quick.

Next, he poured the blended metal into a cast. He had to wait for it to cool but it did not take long because of the crystal dust. Taking it out of the container, Chu Shen sharpened the sword against a grindstone. Normally he didn’t do this but to ensure the highest quality sword it was a must.

Taking out the inscription bottles, Chu Shen started to inscribe. Normally such normal inscriptions would take less than ten minutes. But this was no ordinary inscriptions. Chu Shen had practiced this before but modifying inscriptions still took longer.

After thirty minutes, the sword was done. Unlike the normal silver look steel swords had, it looked like diamonds had been encrusted on the blade. It glittered with crystalline brilliance. It gave off a cold Qi and the edge flashed, making it seem deadly.

The attendant bowed. “That was a masterful performance. It seems you are no ordinary forger. Let us take the sword to the elder. He will be able to evaluate it.”

Soon they stood in front of the elder. The elder held the sword up. Channelling Qi into it and using his spiritual sense to inspect everything in detail. Placing the sword down, the elder looked at Chu Shen in shock.

“Son, may you explain exactly what the sword is and what it’s effects are. I wish to know how the maker would describe such a sword.”

Chu Shen nodded. “Well I used several different materials which I am sure you know from looking at it. But they most significant was using Frost Crystal to give it a slight ice attribute.”

“I gave it three inscriptions. I used a hardening, channelling, and burst inscription. All three are basic inscriptions but I modified the channelling and burst inscriptions.”

“The Frost Crystal has the ability to turn Martial Qi that is channelled through it into frost Qi. Granted the frost Qi is fairly weak. But the longer you channel Qi through the Frost Crystal, the stronger the frost Qi becomes.”

“As you know the burst inscription stores Qi and then unleashes it in one blow. I modified it so that the stored Qi will continuously flow throughout the entire sword using the channeling inscription.”

“Upon martial Qi being channelled into the sword, the frost Qi will then be stored back inside the burst inscription allowing you to utilize a burst of intense frost Qi.”

“The longer it is since you used the burst inscription, the more terrifying the blow. Though it is a one use weapon and needs at least ten minutes to be truly effective.”

The elder nodded at the words Chu Shen said. “Truly a good sword. I see you did not forge a sheath for it though?”

Chu Shen looked at it, then nodded a bit sheepishly. “I kind of forget about that.”

The elder smiled at Chu Shen. “It seems like you still need some experience. In order to preserve the Frost Ore you need to have a sheath. It will also need nourishment of ice attribute treasures in order to keep its attributes.”

“Honestly all that is necessary is to dip the sword into liquid ice, a material readily available that we can line a sheath with. Besides that, I would say the sword is a masterpiece.”

“It can be considered as a Low-Tier Martial Weapon Grade 10. It could even be considered as a Grade 1 Mid-Tier weapon but the nourishing aspect of the sword brings it down slightly.”

The elder then pulled out a steel tablet. Inscribed on it was the characters for Artificer Five Star below that was the number 13 and Chu Shen’s name. Artificers were ranked upon the inscriptions they could place on artifacts and the inscriptions upon the effects they could bring.

A five star inscription was suitable for Mid-Rank artifacts. Chu Shen looked at the tablet before looking back up at the elder. “To be honest, you should have only gotten a Bronze tablet and a four star inscription based on your skills. However, you are young and your future limitless.”

“As a result I deem you worthy of a Steel rank tablet. The tablet is your identification for the Four Treasures Shop. It will give you a thirty percent off all of our merchandise, the ability to use our forges for free, and finally the ability to request and accept missions from us.”

“Be warned that you will need to provide a reward if you do request a mission. As for the downsides. All we request is that you forge one Low-Tier weapon at the 4th grade or better each month along with selling all weapons you forge to us. Don’t worry, we will give you a fair price. We will also provide a salary for you. How does ten gold sound per month?”

Chu Shen was slightly shocked. He had heard from the master smith they treated their crafters well but the treatment was truly great. Ten gold a month for exclusive selling rights and one sword a month? Truly joining a big organization was a good idea.

With this, he should be able to make Lucas as good as new within a month! Chu Shen cupped his hands and bowed to the elder. “Thank you kind sir. I will not forget your magnanimity.”

The elder waved his hand. “No it is my pleasure to accept someone so talented into our Four Treasure Shop. With this, we should soon have a seven or even eight star artificer within ten years. You said it was Huaga Osna that recommended you? Well, tell him he will receive a hundred gold as payment for finding a genius like you.”

Chu Shen thanked them a couple more times before going out into the shop. There the master smith waited anxiously. Upon seeing Chu Shen he rushed up to him. “So how did it go? What kind of weapon did you forge?”

“I forged a Grade 10 Low-Tier Martial Weapon.” Chu Shen said proudly, puffing his chest up a little bit.

The master smith grinned. “Great news, great news. Show me your tablet, quickly!”

Chu Shen brought out the steel tablet. Immediately the master smith was shocked. “They gave you a steel one! I only have an Iron tablet, ranked one below yours. Ugh. If I was as young as you and forged as good as I do now I bet I could have gotten a silver tablet.”

“Ah, to envy youth is a privilege of the old. It is only too bad I did not have your talent. Luckily I discovered you.”

Chu Shen then told the master smith that he would be receiving a hundred gold as payment for recommending Chu Shen to the Four Treasure Shop. Immediately Huaga Osna became overjoyed! His shop earned that much money in half a year. To receive that much now was a great blessing!

Chu Shen then quietly departed for their forge, intending to start making a sheath for the sword and then more swords to earn money for Lucas.



 

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VPnA – The Prequel Volume 2 Chapter 65

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Here’s the first chapter of the day.

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Chapter 66 – So you have good intentions?

Chapter 66 - So you have good intentions?

That’s why, in order to not disturb Zhao Yanyan’s listen in class, I started sleeping whenever class started. This made me recall the high school times, I was like that as well, Zhao Yanyan would listen intently on…



That’s why, in order to not disturb Zhao Yanyan’s listen in class, I started sleeping whenever class started. This made me recall the high school times, I was like that as well, Zhao Yanyan would listen intently on the side, while I slept my days away.

Zhao Yanyan was already completely speechless, she thought more than once, why’s this person like that, sleeping whenever class starts, and it just had to be beside her!! Although she didn’t have anything to do with him, the professor didn’t think so! Looking at the professor’s ambiguous gaze, they must have misunderstood that he was her boyfriend. Ai, so embarrassing, why does this fellow like sleeping so much!

Just as I was enjoying my sleep, I was slapped away. I opened my eyes, and saw an okay-looking boy in a suit stand in front of me.

“Hey, this classmate, can you sleep somewhere else?” The boy deliberately posed very coolly and said.

F̲u̲c̲k̲, I intentionally got pissed, is this person a r̲e̲t̲a̲r̲d̲? How’s it his business where I slept? Thus, I said coldly, “Why do I have to go somewhere else?”

That boy clearly blanked, then said very cockily towards me, “You don’t know who I am?”

“Are you a r̲e̲t̲a̲r̲d̲? Did your head get kicked by a mule?” I found it hilarious, first, this person tells me to sleep somewhere else, and now he asked me if I knew him! The world truly is big enough for all sort of things to happen!

Hearing that, the boy’s face turned green. He was kind of a famous person in Huaxia University, right? However, he thought about it, this person was a new student in first year, it’s normal for himself not to be unknown to them, thus he said, “I’m called Zhang Jiaming, from the second year of Business Management!”

Zhang Jiaming? Never heard of him. I tried my best to think about the memories from my previous life. There wasn’t this person! It seems like as time passed our reborn, the butterfly effect is more and more apparent. The things that has begun to happen is completely different from my previous life.

When a student beside Zhang Jiaming saw my expression that still confused, he quickly explained on the side, “This is the manager of Huaxia Investments!”

Huaxia Investments? Oh, I remember, I do have some recollection of this name. Huaxia Investments is an investment organization that Huaxia University established in order to encourage students to start their own business, it invests in the company that the students establish in exchange for a portion of shares. It was somewhat similar to the current venture capital firms, but this organization strictly focused on Huaxia University’s students.

Seeing that I nodded, Zhang Jiaming’s lackey continued proudly, “How’s that, hurry up and move, our Director Zhang is going to pick up a girl! I’m telling you, if you get into a good relationship with our Director Zhang, he can send eighty or a hundred thousand to you instantly!”

F̲u̲c̲k̲, it’ll be weird if this funding is managed by this person don’t lose way too much money. Now I also understand why a lot of the businesses that students start fail, the management regulations are too terrible!

“Sorry, I’m not interested in your investment. Okay now, please stop disturbing my sleep… Oh, also, if you have any ill thoughts about my girlfriend, I’ll make sure you leave here horizontally!” I said coldly.

“Brat, don’t not recognize when someone is praising you! I’m telling you, there is no advantage for you if you offend Director Zhang, it’ll cause you to have lots of trouble in Huaxia University! Director Zhang getting interested in your girlfriend is her fortune, many girls throw themselves at our Director Zhang, but he’s not interested at them at all!” Zhang Jiaming’s lackey barked wildly at me as he pointed just like a s̲h̲i̲t̲t̲y dog.

“Oh? Then try!” I reached my hand out to pick him up like someone picks up a chicken.

“What… What are you going!” The lackey clearly did not expect I’ll use force.

“What? You are barking wildly beside my ear and disturbing my sleep, don’t you know that the consequences are severe?” I lifted him up with one hand casually with minimum effort and said.

“Okay now, this classmate, let’s not get angry!” Seeing that I wasn’t any kind of nice guy, Zhang Jiaming quickly tried to calm us down. Then he scolded that lackey, “Wang Peng, how many times have I told you about your s̲h̲i̲t̲t̲y mouth, it’s always causing trouble for me!” With that, he gave a cue to Wang Peng.

“Ugh… Ah, hehe, sorry, Director Zhang!” Wang Peng immediately understood him.

“What’s the use of saying sorry to me, hurry up and apologize to this classmate!” said Zhang Jiaming.

“Oh, this classmate, I’m so sorry!” said Wang Peng.

“Hehe!” I snorted coldly and threw Wang Peng to the side. This pair of master and servant was clearly acting, do they think that I can’t tell. If this Zhang Jiaming did not signal Wang Peng, would he dare to act so cockily!

“Alright, sorry for disturbing!” Zhang Jiaming did very well to cover, but from the lecherous gaze he looked at Zhao Yanyan with, as well as the spiteful gaze he looked at me with, how was it possible for me to not understand what he was thinking!

It just that I was busy pursuing Zhao Yanyan right now, so I didn’t have the time to deal with them. Since I spent all my time with Zhao Yanyan every single day aside from when I’m sleeping, I wasn’t scared of him doing anything.

“Why were you so aggressive towards them just now!” After Zhang Jiaming left, Zhao Yanyan asked me with a blush. It was clearly because I called her my girlfriend just now.

“It’s obvious that that Zhang Jiaming didn’t have any good intentions, he clearly just want to chat you up, and didn’t that Wang Peng say it a well!” I said.

“So you have good intentions? Don’t you want to… that me?” Zhao Yanyan blinked and looked at me with a smiling and not smiling intention.

During university, I was able to retain the good habit of never bringing my books to class.

This day, I truly wasn’t sleepy, perhaps I slept too much recently, causing me to not be able to even fall asleep. I just brought Chen Weier to get a room every day, causing the girly to be dead tired, while praying for Zhao Yanyan to return to my embrace quickly. Otherwise, she would be screwed to death by me.

Seeing that I wasn’t sleeping and blanked out while staring at her on the side, she pushed the book between us embarrassedly and said, “Let’s share a book, you should listen to class, otherwise, what are you going to do during the test! Don’t think that I’ll give you the answers!”

Hearing that, I felt a sudden joy, that means Zhao Yanyan started caring about me! Hard work truly does pay off! Just as I was getting happy, I heard someone suddenly call my name, “Liu Lei, come and answer the question just now!”

I raised my head in confusion, and saw the professor in charge of the lesson looking at me.

F̲u̲c̲k̲, isn’t he messing with me, how am I supposed to know what the question was!

Just as I was getting annoyed, Zhao Yanyan kicked me and said quietly, “The second to last line on page 69!”

I quickly picked up the book and swiftly flipped to the page and started reading, “Huaxia University Press, set price 29.38 yuan…” F̲u̲c̲k̲, just as I was thinking about how caring the chick Zhao Yanyan was, actually telling me the answer, I saw that I misread the page number, and actually flipped to page 96.



 

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Continue reading Chapter 66 – So you have good intentions?

Chapter 66 – So you have good intentions?

That’s why, in order to not disturb Zhao Yanyan’s listen in class, I started sleeping whenever class started. This made me recall the high school times, I was like that as well, Zhao Yanyan would listen intently on…

Chapter 65 – Chasing Beauty Plan

Chapter 65 - Chasing Beauty Plan

In order to not cause any awkwardness, I quickly gave Liu Yue a cue for her to watch Zhao Yanyan as I drag Zhao Junsheng out and tell him the current situation. “It can’t be, Xiao Liu, why…



In order to not cause any awkwardness, I quickly gave Liu Yue a cue for her to watch Zhao Yanyan as I drag Zhao Junsheng out and tell him the current situation.

“It can’t be, Xiao Liu, why is it so much of a coincidence! Ai, this time I can’t help you either!” Hearing my troubles, Zhao Junsheng said helplessly.

“I’m trying to think of a way, but Yanyan doesn’t believe what I’m saying at all!” I shook my head and said.

“This is easy to deal with!” Zhao Junsheng suddenly said.

“What, Uncle Zhao, you have a good plan?” Hearing Zhao Junsheng say that, I quickly asked.

“Mhmm. What I mean is that you can pursue her again!” Zhao Junsheng gave two dry coughs and said.

“F̲u̲c̲k̲!” I’m going to faint, I thought it was some kind of amazing plan, he’s actually telling me to pursue Zhao Yanyan again! However, this might be a good method! But, can I succeed?

“You pursued her once and have the experience, so it’ll definitely be easier!” Zhao Junsheng drove me on and said.

“What easy, she was young then, so it was easier. Don’t you see how protective she is of herself, how am I supposed to pursue her!” I complained.

“Hai hai! So you tricked my daughter like that, you finally admitted it!” Zhao Junsheng smiled evilly and said.

“Ugh… Let’s not talk about this for not. Talk about how I’m supposed to pursue her! Uncle Zhao, you don’t want Yanyan to find another boyfriend, right!” I quickly changed the topic.

“Of course I don’t hope so, you’re my boss, of course I want to marry my daughter to you!” said Zhao Junsheng.

“Say, Uncle Zhao, why are you getting less and less serious the older you get. Can you say something useful? Zhao Yanyan has no more relationship to my, then the shares under her name can be yours now. Doesn’t that mean that it’s more beneficial for Zhao Yanyan not to be with me?” I shrugged and said.

“About this… Aren’t I just making a joke to relax the atmosphere!” Zhao Junsheng said in self-mockery. “However, I will teach you an ultimate move. For pursuing girls, you just have to be thick skinned, pester her shamelessly, you’ll succeed ninety percent of the time!”

“Shamelessly? Pester? Does that actually work?” To be honest, I really didn’t like this sort of bad ideas.

“Why doesn’t it work! I tried it out myself! Look, Yanyan’s mom is pretty, right? At the time, she was very tsun, but ever since I failed pursuing your mom, I concluded that you have to be brave to pick up girls, and be shameless!” Zhao Junsheng said proudly.

“Really?”

“Of course!”

“Are you sure?”

“Very sure!”

“Then I’ll try!”

“I hope you succeed, I’m waiting for my grandchild!”

“…”

After listening to Zhao Junsheng’s shocking advice, I stayed in Zhao Yanyan’s ward the following day. I just don’t believe that I can’t move her!

Yet, Zhao Junsheng’s attitude towards e also turned from disgust to the current… beyond contempt! I even wondered if Zhao Junsheng’s idea actually worked, if I didn’t know that he didn’t dare to screw over his own boss behind the scene, I would have gone to take his company apart in anger! Wait, it seems like that is my company!

In the end, I couldn’t help but dial Zhao Junsheng’s number.

“Uncle Zhao, the method you taught me didn’t work!”

“What’s Yanyan’s attitude towards you right now?”

“Beyond contempt!”

“That’s right!”

“That’s right? What’s right? It’s right when she’s beyond disgusted with me?”

“Now, you don’t understand. Understanding a woman’s heart is like trying to find a needle in the ocean! The more she dislikes you, the more it means that you are in her heart, it’s only bad if she’s emotionless towards you!”

“Is that so? Then I’ll try again!”

“Kay, then call me again when she slowly starts to not dislike you! I’ll tell you what to do!”

“Okay! I understand!”

I hung up the phone, and couldn’t resist laughing. There is actually a father that teaches other people to pursue his daughter, haha!

Since Zhao Yanyan got into a car crash not many days after reporting in, most students didn’t remember her. Although Zhao Yanyan was unusually beautiful, most people wore camouflage clothing and a military cap, so they couldn’t tell at all.

When Zhao Yanyan returned to Huaxia University to go to school, she immediately brought about a commotion in Huaxia University! Even students in the second and third year ran over to the entrance of the first year’s Computing classroom to have a look at this beauty that had a chance to become the new school beauty of Huaxia University.

Yet, a shameless fellow would always appear at this beauty’s side. Regardless of it being class time, or lunch time, this fellow was always around her. Initially, a lot of the male students were very angry and wanted to teach this shameless fellow a lesson, but they were often beaten to a pulp but this fellow. As time went on, nobody went to cause trouble for him, they would only despise him in their hearts.

Of course, this fellow was definitely me! How could I possibly let other people appear at Zhao Yanyan’s side!

At the start, Zhao Yanyan ignored me always pestering her, and continued to act as she please. Yet, as time passed on, Zhao Yanyan couldn’t handle it any more.

“Say, what exactly do you want to do! You’re always behind me!” Zhao Yanyan finally could not resist it, and spoke to me.

“Of course it’s to pick you up!” I said shamelessly. My purpose was already crystal clear, it would be bad if I actually tried to say it in other ways.

“You…” Zhao Yanyan didn’t think I would be so direct either, and so didn’t know what to say.

“What about me, isn’t it better if I’m honest. Am I supposed to say that I’m just going the same way as you? You wouldn’t believe me even if I said that!” I shrugged an dsaid. I understood Zhao Yanyan too well, I knew exactly what she was thinking.

“…” Zhao Yanyan became completely speechless, then finally said. “Then just follow…”

Every lunchtime, I would go and fight with Zhao Yanyan to buy her meal. At the start, this chick wouldn’t agree no matter what, but in the end, she couldn’t defeat me, so she tried to give me the lunch money. Of course I wouldn’t accept it!

In the end, Zhao Yanyan just stopped arguing. After class every noon, she would go to the canteen with me and find a way to seat to wait for me to buy the meal.

I snickered in my heart, was I not far away from success? At least Zhao Yanyan didn’t despise me as much as she did at the start. However, I still had a self-conscience, I knew that although Zhao Yanyan didn’t despise me, she was still far from liking me!

She just felt rather helpless towards me, since I wouldn’t go away no matter what she did, she might as well just let me be. At least this way, she had someone caring for her every day. The felling wasn’t bad. When Zhao Yanyan watched me walk in front every time school ends, and help her open a path, there was an indescribable feeling in her heart, it seemed very familiar, but she wasn’t willing to think about ti.

On the other hand, I would sit by Zhao Yanyan’s side every lesson. Of course, at the start, in order to be lazy, I chose the computing faculty. Ignoring that fact that I already studied it once during my previous life in university, I was also in the computing industry in my previous life, and so the computing knowledge I had was deeper than ones I learnt now by several times!



 

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Chapter 65 – Chasing Beauty Plan

In order to not cause any awkwardness, I quickly gave Liu Yue a cue for her to watch Zhao Yanyan as I drag Zhao Junsheng out and tell him the current situation. “It can’t be, Xiao Liu, why…

Chapter 64 – Who’s this person?

Chapter 64 - Who's this person?

“Is it about Yanyan?” My heart immediately tensed up. I know that Liu Yue calling me right now was most likely about Zhao Yanyan, that was because Liu Yue was rather independent, for things related to the business,…



“Is it about Yanyan?” My heart immediately tensed up. I know that Liu Yue calling me right now was most likely about Zhao Yanyan, that was because Liu Yue was rather independent, for things related to the business, she would only tell me the situation of the revenue every year, and not mention other things to me.

“Yes… Zhao Yanyan woke up, but she…” Liu Yue paused for a moment.

“What happened? Just say it!” I asked anxiously. My voice subconsciously loudened by several times, causing the people around me to stare at me.

“But she doesn’t remember you anymore!” Liu Yue said with a sigh.

“Don’t remember me? What do you mean!” I asked anxiously.

“When I mentioned you, she was completely blank, but she remembers everyone else… The doctor said that the shockwave to her brain caused her to have partial amnesia…” Liu Yue explained.

I received two news at the same time, a good news and a bad news.

I don’t know if I should be happy or depressed at this moment.

However, Zhao Yanyan being safe is my biggest comfort! No matter what, I’ll hurry to the hospital first!

Although Liu Yue said that she would get someone from the car shop to come and get me at the airport, I couldn’t wait any longer, and so I hurried towards the hospital after stopping a cab.

After I got to the entrance to the ward, I hard clear laughter from within. Who else was it apart from Zhao Yanyan!

My sullen mood immediately lightened, I don’t know why, but I felt a bit more relaxed at this moment. Perhaps, this is the feeling of truly loving someone.

I knocked on the door and walked into the ward. When I saw Zhao Yanyan, who was smiling happily as she chatted with Liu Yue, I really had an urge to rush up and hold her in my embrace, but I restrained myself.

When she saw me enter, she frowned and looked at me. She felt like the person in front of her was unusually familiar, but she couldn’t remember him. As for Liu Yue, she quickly said, “Liu Lei, you came back!”

“Oh! So you’re Liu Lei! Liu Yue has always mentioned you these few days, you must be Liu Yue’s boyfriend, right?” Zhao Yanyan smiled at me.

I faint… She really doesn’t recognize me…

Hearing Zhao Yanyan say that she kept on mentioning Liu Lei, Liu Yue’s face couldn’t help but heat up. When she heard Zhao Yanyan say that Liu Lei is her boyfriend, her face immediately blushed. She didn’t know why, but even though she felt that it was clearly wrong, as if she was taking advantage of Zhao Yanyan, she couldn’t help herself.

Seeing Liu Yue blush, I couldn’t help but sigh silently. However, I didn’t have the main d to consider other matters right now.

Looking at Zhao Yanyan’s innocent look, I suppressed the urge of telling her what happened before. I know that even if I said it all, she can’t accept it all right now. However, I did have to draw a clear line with Liu Yue for now, or else it would be even harder for Zhao Yanyan to accept me. Thus I smiled and said, “Hehe, we’re just normal friends.”

The moment I said that, Liu Yue expression darkened a little, but it returned to normal very quickly. Zhao Yanyan did not notice, but since I was extremely sensitive, I was able to feel Liu Yue’s change, it’s just that, what was I supposed to do right now?

“About that… I’m going out to buy something, Yanyan didn’t eat breakfast yet…” Liu Yue also felt the awkward atmosphere, and found an excuse to leave the ward.

“Yanyan…” Seeing that Liu Yue left, I was unable to suppress the feelings within my heart, so I said passionately as I sat down beside Zhao Yanyan.

Zhao Yanyan felt rather wrong about my way of addressing her. She frowned and said in displeasure, “I don’t know you, call me Zhao Yanyan, we aren’t very familiar with each other…”

“I… Do you really not remember me?” I asked without giving up.

“What’s wrong with you, I’ve never seen you before!” Although Zhao Yanyan just woke up and felt a bit blurry, she didn’t have such a person in her memory. From her perspective, this person was clearly trying to get close to her with a thick face, and he even called her “Yanyan” intimately!

“Yanyan, if you don’t remember me, then can you remember who you spend the three years of high school with?” I continued to ask.

Three years of high school? Zhao Yanyan tried her hardest to think, but did not recall anything. Although she remembers tads and bits of some things, it was as if she couldn’t recall something important. However, she just thought that this was a normal case of just waking up, the doctor had said that it was normal, so she didn’t treat it as anything. She never would have thought that she would completely forget someone.

“Please stop talking? I just woke up, the doctor told me not to use my brain too much, but I can tell you, I really don’t remember someone like you!” Zhao Yanyan said mercilessly.

“Yanyan, actually… actually we’re a couple!” I couldn’t suppress my emotions anymore and finally spoke out the truth. I continued, “Yanyan, did you forget, we were deskmates in high school, we learnt about computers at Shaoniangong together. Your first time lying to your home was sneaking out to the theatres with me, which was where we had our first kiss, also, we went to Yanjing to enter the National Teenage Computing Competition, and in the hotel we…”

“Enough, haha!” Zhao Yanyan interrupted my words and laughed coldly, “Liu Lei-tongxue, don’t you find this hilarious? This is so old, pursuing a girl using this method is too outdated!”

The words “Liu Lei-tongxue” caused my heart to feel cold. This means that Zhao Yanyan had completely drawn a boundary between her and I. She actually treated my words as a way of pursuing her! However, thinking about it, it did seem like the plot from some third-rated tv show!

I knew it was pointless to continue, so could only shut up.

At this moment, Liu Yue returned. When she saw Zhao Yanyan and I look in different directions, acting extremely awkward, she said, “I bought three people’s portion, let’s eat together!”

Coincidentally, I didn’t eat anything since I just got off the plane, and was truly a bit hungry, so I didn’t act courteous. I just received the chopsticks and started eating. This caused Zhao Yanyan to frown, as she said to me, “Why are you so thick-skinned, you don’t feel awkward at all!”

The moment I said that, not only I, but even Liu Yue felt troubled! However, Liu Yue didn’t say anything, since she couldn’t help in this situation either.

Before we finished eating, Uncle Zhao pushed open the door. Seeing that I was here, he said happily, “Xiao Liu, you’re here! Did you finish taking care of the things in Hong Kong?”

“Yeah, Uncle Zhao, I handed it to the branch office manager, Zhang Jiang, to handle,” I said.

“Dad, who is this person?” Suddenly, Zhao Yanyan interrupted Uncle Zhao and my conversation and asked while pointing at me. She seemed to be very displeased with the familiarity between Zhao Junsheng and I.

“Yanyan, you…” Zhao Junsheng looked at his darling daughter in confusion as he said strangely, “What did you say?”



 

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Chapter 64 – Who's this person?

“Is it about Yanyan?” My heart immediately tensed up. I know that Liu Yue calling me right now was most likely about Zhao Yanyan, that was because Liu Yue was rather independent, for things related to the business,…

[Arc 3] Chapter 92

[Arc 3] Chapter 92

Chapter 92 Forging Again “Okay, here's your money. Now remember that you have used up your three chances to hunt here for the month. Don’t come here until next month.” The guard kindly reminded Chu Shen. Chu Shen,…



Chapter 92
Forging Again

“Okay, here’s your money. Now remember that you have used up your three chances to hunt here for the month. Don’t come here until next month.” The guard kindly reminded Chu Shen.

Chu Shen, who had small rips and patches of dust on his robe nodded at the guard. “Thanks, see you next month then.” With the courtesies done, Chu Shen left for his house. Once there, he changed into some cleaner clothes

“Alright, now I need to find a local forge. I should be able to rent some time there. Wait, first I need to buy the inscription ink and the materials to forge. I should be able to forge some basic swords, sabres, and a couple shields.”

Chu Shen nodded. Now that he had his plan, he just needed to execute it. Heading out, Chu Shen bought the necessary materials and asked for directions to a nearby forge.

Walking in, Chu Shen found the attendant. “Uh excuse me?”

The attendant looked up at him, blinking in confusion. “Yes? What is it?”

“Well I was wondering, this is a forge right?”

“Yes, it is. We accept custom orders if you wish to do so.”

“No. Actually, I wanted to know if I could borrow your forge so I can make some weapons.”

The attendant blinked rapidly for a second. “I…….. I’m not sure what to do. I think I need to talk to the master smith before I can make this decision. Give me a moment while I find him.”

The attendant walked through a door leading to a closed end of the shop. When the door opened Chu Shen could hear the faint ding of metal hitting metal and the shop noticeably heated up a couple degrees.

After a couple seconds, a huge man stepped into the shop, ducking to avoid hitting the doorway. The man was had his clothes covered in ash, presumably from the forge.

“So, who wants to use my forge!” The man boomed out. Chu Shen raised his hand. The man looked at him for a second before laughing. He laughed so hard that tears came out. Chu Shen only stared it him.

The man wiped a tear away. “Huh. So it’s just a brat. And I thought I might be able to hire a new forger. Go on then, leave. I don’t need an assistant right now.”

“No. I can forge artifacts all by myself. I can forge Low-Tier Martial artifacts fairly proficiently.” Chu Shen stated indignantly.

“Oh? Someone as young as you boasts about forging Low-Tier Martial artifacts? Does that mean you are an artificer?” The man said. As he did became more serious. An artificer was just too rare. If this kid truly was an artificer then he couldn’t offend him.

“Of course I can.” Chu Shen said imperiously. So many people had been arrogant and looked down upon him for so long, Chu Shen was fed up with it. Now it was his turn to be arrogant.

After a second though, Chu Shen seemed to deflate. It made him so mad when others acted arrogant. If he started doing it, didn’t that make him no better than them? Sighing, Chu Shen shrugged. No use thinking too deeply.
The man meanwhile had studied Chu Shen. Reaching out, he grabbed Chu Shen’s hand. They had slight callouses, though they were very faint. The man nodded. Seemed as though this kid did have some experience with wielding a hammer.

“Alright. I hope you can sympathize with me when I tell you that I can’t believe your story without proof. If I believed everyone that said the things you do, I would be considered a fool. So prove yourself.”

“I can give you an hour on an unused forge. If you can make a Low-Tier Martial weapon like you said, I will let you use the forge for free. But if you can’t or you damage my forge, I need you to pay me instead.”

Chu Shen nodded. It was a fair deal. If he had expected the master smith to trust such an unbelievable claim of talent without a shred of proof than all that would have proven was that the master smith was indeed a fool. “Alright, just lead me to the forge. I brought my own materials.”

The master smith nodded. “Alright. The assistant here will help you in the forge so that you aren’t distracted. You, lead this young man to forge nine. If I remember correctly, the blacksmith is taking leave for cultivation.”

The attendant who had followed the master smith back looked around for a second before pointing at himself. The man rolled his eyes. “Yes you, now go help this kid.”

The attendant didn’t say anything, only gesturing for Chu Shen to follow him. Chu Shen followed the attendant. There was a large open hall. Smoke was everywhere though most of it was billowing through the large holes on the ceiling. Obviously they were chimneys for ventilation.

The sounds of forging surrounded Chu Shen, putting him at ease. He had spent a majority of his life forging so these sounds were like a soothing lullaby to him.

Chu Shen was lead to an open room. Inside was the forge and some tools that were laid off to the side. The attendant took up a seat outside the forge while Chu Shen started laying out the materials he needed to forge. He then started mixing together the inscription ink.

Both him and the attendant said nothing about him not helping. Honestly it was Chu Shen’s way of giving face and being tactful. The real reason the attendant was here was to personally witness Chu Shen forging. Otherwise, what if Chu Shen just pretended to forge and brought out a weapon that he had bought previously?

Chu Shen started to forge, placing the metals together. Then using his Qi to manipulate the fire, he assured the even melting of the materials. Pounding out the impurities, Chu Shen repeated the steps several times. Pouring out the purified metal into the cast, Chu Shen waited for it too cool off.

Placing the finished sword on a table, Chu Shen then started the inscription process. The inscription was a simple [Burst Inscription] that stored Qi that the user could unleash all at once. Chu Shen succeeded on his first try, considering it was an inscription that he had used many times. He also used the [Hardening Inscription] to increase the sword’s durability.

As Chu Shen held up the sword to inspect it, the attendant started clapping. “I am impressed. I have seen many blacksmiths as adept as you at forging, but many were already past their prime. It is inspiring to see such talent in one so young.”

Chu Shen nodded in recognition of the praise. “Well I have been forging for a long time so it is no big surprise that I can forge so good.”

“Either way it is an achievement to be proud off. Let us go see the master smith to validate the bet.”

“Yes, let’s go.” Chu Shen found the master smith pounding away on a spear. They waited for a while and soon he put the spear in water and then left it to cool. Turning, the man expressed surprise when he saw Chu Shen.

“What? What is it boy? It’s been barely over a half hour. You can’t be quitting already?” The man cocked his head, obviously questioning Chu Shen.

Chu Shen shook his head in denial. “Quite the opposite. I am already done with the forging. Here, can you inspect this sword I forged?” The attendant held the sword in his hand and gave it the master smith upon Chu Shen’s prompting.

The smith looked at it, inspecting it very closely with his eyes and spiritual sense. Qi surged into it as he inspected the inscriptions. Sighing, the smith placed the sword beside the cooling spear. Turning to Chu Shen he sighed.

“I admit, you are a great forger. Your foundations are very solid. The sword has had all the materials spread evenly throughout the entire sword ensuring there are no weak points along with there being almost no impurities.”

“Not to mention that the inscriptions have no error and match the sword exactly. Truly worthy of an artificer. If I had to rank this sword, I would say it is a Grade 3 Low-Tier Martial Weapon.”

“May I ask though, have you joined any other factions as an artificer?” Chu Shen was startled at the question before shaking his head. “Good. I have joined the Four Materials Shop. For someone with as much potential as you, they will certainly treat you well.”

Chu Shen thought about it for a second. “What kind of benefits would I receive?”

The master smith shook his head. “I don’t know. It depends upon your age, cultivation, and the best quality artifact you can make. But I know for me, I can receive 30% off on all materials along with being able to make requests. All I need to do is forge ten swords that can be turned into High-Tier Martial Weapons. And I am just a blacksmith, without being an artificer.”

Chu Shen realized, wasn’t this exactly what he needed? He needed to practice his classical forging and inscriptions, he also needed to gather the materials needed for Lucas to be reborn. Depending upon the benefits and restrictions, this should be exactly what he needed

“I will join the Four Materials Shop.”

“Okay, come with me. I will take you to join them.”



 

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